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DARPA Project List (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) was established 1958 in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik. DARPA reports directly to the Secretary of Defense; however, it operates independently of the rest of military research and development. Its basic principles are:
Here's a listing of the DARPA-related projects presented on the Technovelgy site:
To address the autonomy, perception, networking and mobility technologies necessary to map subsurface networks..
Calls for the AI to engage in virtual dogfights with opponents.
Can actually detect the presence of the virus in your bloodstream.
Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination.
The Virtual Cave Circuit event of the Subterranean Challenge ran on livestream.
Natural-feeling sensations to the the user by direct connection to the brain.
Deliver cargo from Earth's surface to low earth orbit for low, low prices.
Set guidelines for how to design next-generation AI machines that are able to help and interact effectively with humans.
An artificially intelligent computer that can create jazz music.
They want pilots to be able to command a drone army.
Birds of prey and flying insects exhibit the kinds of capabilities we want for small UAVs.
Direct neural interface that will allow for the visual display of information without the use of glasses or goggles.
Advances in technology to infantry squads who already have too much technology and weaponry to keep track of.
Is it possible to learn cognitive skills faster?
Implanting devices to improve memory - right into the brain.
Lightweight, conformal under-suit offering some battery power can take some of the load off of soldiers.
The program intends to develop novel representations and algorithms to enable small air platforms to fly fast.
DARPA has released a video showing would-be contractors exactly what they want from their Fast Lightweight Autonomy drones.
Take a look at the following video, which shows a soft robot going for a walk on rocks.
The Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) system seeks to improve sniper effectiveness.
A direct neural interface that will allow for the visual display of information without the use of glasses or goggles.
A kind of undersuit that significantly boosts endurance, carrying capacity and overall warfighter effectiveness.
Take a look at the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) robot pack animal from Boston Dynamics.
An airborne "aircraft carrier" for launching and retrieving drone aircraft.
Materials with Controlled Microstructural Architecture (MCMA) program is seeking ways to control and engineer materials at a fundamental level.
Developing deployable, unmanned, distributed systems that lie on the deep-ocean floor in special containers for years at a time.
Intended to greatly improve rifle accuracy and range by using what amounts to a guided bullet.
Chips that could make sense of video and sensor data from planes and drones right on board.
In this video, Pet-Proto, a predecessor to DARPA's Atlas robot, is confronted with obstacles similar to those robots might face in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
An implantable neural device with the ability to record and stimulate neurons within the brain to help restore memory.
A prototype device that does not require surgery has been created that allows for remote control of brain activity.
The intent is to create a robot that is able to handle difficult, uneven terrain with some measure of robotic aplomb.
How much of your tax money would you spend on a program to recreate Avatar, a movie in which a human is "uploaded" to a robot?
Is it possible to reconstitute shredded documents?
Demonstrate the ability to collect, localize, and evaluate physiological signals (e.g., heart rate) at distances greater than 10 meters.
DARPA is looking for a wearable suit that can help protect warfighters.
Available to the public for free download.
Bring together its diverse speech translation efforts into an all-in-one package.
The goal of the radioisotope transmitter work is to power the insects that the group is developing for DARPA.
A smart camera, with sufficient visual intelligence that it can report on activity in an area of observation.
Dynamically forecast when deadly moles deep within government departments will likely strike.
Mass-produced synthetic blood for transfusions
Now being designed to communicate with each other by modulating their usual calls.
They'd like to see a device that can repair skin - as well as nerves and bones.
Fracture Putty could rapidly restore a patient to ambulatory function while normal healing ensues, with dramatically reduced rehabilitation time.
When activated by an approaching projectile, the Iron Curtain takes it out. Remarkable DARPA video below.
A robot based on jamming skin-enabled locomotion (JSEL).
The first successful mechanical energy scavenging from flying insects.
The intent is to develop the company's one-pound, 29-inch wingspan battery-powered Wasp unmanned system.
These machines use cutting-edge mathematical theorems to fold themselves into virtually any three-dimensional object.
DARPA wants a new "robotic mule" to carry gear for soldiers in the field.
Furthermore, DARPA thermal isolation techniques will enable high efficiency beam to power converters, perhaps making chipscale self-sustained fusion possible.
'...allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals.'
The agency is seeking whitepapers to fuel the development of a scientific approach to predicting the actions of large masses of people.
How is it possible that a bullet could redirect its own course in mid-flight?
Tests to date have seen small aerial robots lose large chunks of themselves to hostile fire, yet carry on with their mission.
A new defense department project to locate enemies precisely, and target them, by phone.
Project to develop a robotic platform able to perform long missions while refueling itself by foraging.
Harnessing Infrastructure for Building Reconnaissance (HIBR).
ChemBots are soft, flexible robots that are able to alter their shape to squeeze through small openings and then regain their full size.
An alternative to today's standard treatments, which often lead to further complications, and are not fully load-bearing,
The minimal required airborne tactical radius of the sub-plane is 1000 nautical miles (nm).
Create compressed magnetic flux generator (CMFG)-driven magneto hydrodynamically formed metal jets and self-forging penetrators (SFP).
Intended to give wheeled robots an additional edge; the ability to jump up onto or over obstacles up to nine meters high.
The Katana Mono-Wing Rotorcraft is a coin-sized one-bladed helicopter.
With the impetus toward micro-air and -ground vehicles for military applications, there is a compelling need for imaging micro-sensors compatible with these small platforms.
Create high-fidelity computer simulations of in-theatre events for tactical, operational and strategic review
The program focused on creating water from the atmosphere using low-energy systems.
Shape-shifting supersonic bomber fans are feeling bereft this weekend.
The development of an automated mammalian training device would significantly reduce the need for human involvement.
These Robots In Sensorial Environments are being developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon.
Vulture is intended to fly for periods of up to five years unattended at 65,000 feet.
LSTAT has been around since 1999; however, the LSTAT-lite is considerably lighter and more affordable.
DARPA is soliciting proposals for intelligent autonomous radio relay nodes.
Researchers have succeeded in implanting electronic circuit probes into tobacco hornworms as early pupae.
The University of Michigan team has successfully created a cyborg unicorn beetle microsystem.
Carnegie Mellon's Boss, an autonomous Chevy Tahoe, was declared the winner.
The teams will attempt to complete a complex 60-mile urban course with live traffic in less than six hours. Now, the videos.
DARPA thinkers are saying that maybe humans themselves need an upgrade.
Urban Challenge consists four sets of vehicle behavior requirements.
The Chemical Communications (ChemComm) program objective is to encode and transmit information in a rapid and covert manner.
HI-MEM-based bug armies? Our friends at DARPA seem to have cyborgs on the brain.
Project seeks to create algorithms that help multi-legged platforms learn to walk in varied terrain.
Autonomous ground vehicles will take to a mocked-up urban area to negotiate a 60-mile course.
They've dubbed the device "Luke's Binoculars," after the device used by Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movie.
Handheld radar scope can provide troops with an ability that was formerly the province of science fictional superheroes alone.
Good progress on Ray Bradbury's mechanical hound from Fahrenheit 451.
In a briefing today on GovExec.com, a variety of projects from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) demonstrate that some science fiction thinking is good.
In those Jaws movies, the shark seemed like it was out to get you. DARPA makes this dream come true.
In his chilling 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury created the mechanical hound, a robot that accompanied the firemen and helped with their work... DARPA has made a multi-million dollar investment in the soldier of the future's best friend - BigDog.
DARPA has initiated a new program called "Metabolic Dominance" to assure that soldiers have superior physiological qualities. Frank Herbert had the answer sooner, though.
Not your great-grandfather's airship, the Walrus will be able to lift a fighting force.
DARPA and a host of scientists are working on decontamination techniques for dirty bombs.
DARPA searches for impossible materials - unobtainium - and is succeeding.
The Springtail EFV-4B Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) is a fourth-generation vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft powered by a single engine.
DARPA has awarded a $12 million contract to develop an automated medical treatment system that can recieve, assess and stabilize wounded soldiers immediately following injury. The trauma pod is used to treat soldiers on the battlefield using advanced
The Cormorant submarine and sea launched vehicle concept may remind you of science fiction glories past.
Studies have shown that low Earth orbit is not a limitless resource and should be managed more carefully. Some sort of debris-mitigation measures are needed to solve the problem of old, unusable satellites and space junk.
Ultra-light High Energy Liquid Lasers are coming.
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DARPA Project List (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
